Homebound elderly people might soon have easy virtual access to activities offered by senior living communities, thanks to the winners of the inaugural LeadingAge HackFest. The event brought eight competing teams to Dallas, where LeadingAge's annual conference was held last week. The interdisciplinary teams had 24 hours to think up an idea and create a prototype application, website, interactive online experience or device. “We created a small system where retirement communities can expose their calendar of activities online, and take some of those activities and make them available through a video conference,” explained Cristhian Parra, a member of the winning team. Parra, a 29-year-old computer science doctoral student at the University of Trento in Italy, spoke on camera with McKnight's in Dallas. Through the system conceived by Parra and his teammates, people living at home would be able to access a list of ongoing activities. These could include book clubs, religious serv
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